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Ok but Funk dictio, how doth one use 'thon' elsewise??

They, them, their: They gave them their sleeve.
Vey, vem, ver: Vey gave vem ver sleeve.
Thon, ?, ?: Thon gave thon thon's sleeve, mayhaps?

merriam-webster.com/wordplay/t

www.merriam-webster.comThe History of 'Thon', the Forgotten Gender-Neutral PronounWe added a gender-neutral pronoun in 1934. Why have so few people heard of it?
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Staying alive, you can learn or run. You can help others, even when you don't know wtf you're "meant" to be doing.

If you need to recover in the closet to be who you are later, there's nothing wrong with you.
If you need to kick the door down to breathe, I'll kick with you. ("Together, we have great strength of feet!")

This is so fucking stupid, but fuck it. It's where we're at.

Whatever your journey of processing this and surviving it looks like, you are not weak.
Even fellow chronically ill people: your bodies are not weak.

We are surviving the utmost fuckery -- despite Seymour's directions -- while the arc of history bends to conviviality.

transtexas.org/get-involved

Transgender Education Network of TexasGet Involved — Transgender Education Network of TexasGet involved with TENT. Make living, working, and going to school safe for Transgender Texans by taking action today.
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You may need to question dangerous situations for your own sake. (Ideally BEFORE you get near them, but please: it's not your fault if you don't realise until later.)

If no one else and no other organisation, Samaritans is probably your best bet. Otherwise, you can search online but PLEASE. Fuck, there is no general advice I can even give here.

You want "near you" / local, and f2f / in-person where you can. Unfortunately, people of same demographics are most likely to care, but this is NO guarantee, nor should it be.

If you know tech shit:
VPN is probably helpful, depending where you live and what you need to know.

If you don't know tech shit:
only ask people certain questions face to face / in person. Turn your devices off, batteries out, and in another room.
Make it a game! Like training to be a spy, yeah?

samaritans.org/how-we-can-help

SamaritansContact UsContact Us
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Seek community with people who feel safe:
actually warm, stable, secure, NOT upsetting, worrying, or 'wrong'. ("Oh, I want to trust them, but..." then DON'T. "But what about--" NO.
If you *need* something from them to survive or help someone else, take the risks you think you can survive the worst outcomes of sustainably. But otherwise, please value yourself and your wellbeing. If not, please value yourself because I do.)

TRUST YOUR GUT.
Yes, your gut *can* be wrong. Your gut can be racist, sexist, or otherwise shitty. It can keep you from connecting with people who mean well but can't match your expectations while trying to help.
But it's among the best advice I can give.

It's not easy to tell who is safe(r) or not; I'm sorry. I wish it were easy.

It's not your fault if you get it wrong! That's the point of being young and inexperienced: you haven't been alive long enough to experience what you need to know to stay alive and healthy(ish) yet.

You should never have to figure this out alone.

mermaidsuk.org.uk/

MermaidsMermaids WebsiteHelping gender-diverse kids, young people and their families since 1995
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Baby queers, questioning people, and anyone else, we got you.

This sucks: it's terrifying and unnecessary suffering. This was avoidable, but for powerful people making their selfish fear into our problem.

It's not your fault, never was, and never will be. Your feelings matter, your experiences matter, and even unmet, your needs matter.

You might even say, perhaps -- bizarrely?! -- that b/Black and b/Brown (wait, does that one get the double case slash or) peoples' lives matter.

naacp.org/take-action

NAACPTake Action
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Much like b/Black people, disabled people, queer people, and other groups pushed out of everyday life all keep saying in various words and intensities over the years:
shit has hit the fan, will continue to hit the fan, and yes, this is going to be tedious and deadly to fix.

But we do, in fact, need to turn off the fan, remove the faeces, sterilise all surfaces and objects in the room, and LEARN what went wrong.

The time will pass either way. We need to accept our current situation to plan how to fix it.

zeppelin.flights/@Shelly/11387

The IncomparableShelly Brisbin (@Shelly@zeppelin.flights)I don't know exactly the ways and means yet, but I'm planning to cover the impact the new administration's disolving federal DEI in its many forms will have on services and programs for people with disabilities, including accessibility of government information. Send me tips, contacts, stories. #a11y

Ich kann verstehen, dass speziell hier die Nutzer gerade enttäuscht sind von #Habeck.

Aber sein Punkt damals #Twitter zu verlassen war, dass es schlecht ist für sein Seelenheil. Da ging es noch lange nicht um #Musk.

Ich kann seine Argumentation heute verstehen. Er muss sichtbar sein und wenn man sich diesen Tweet ansieht, dann ist er das auch.

Ricarda #Lang rasiert dann in den Drukos alle weg. Ihr wolltet doch aktive Gegenwehr? Dann muss er leider auch dort aktiv sein.